[Python-Dev] Unicode Imports (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Sep 9 09:23:32 CEST 2006

Nick Coghlan schrieb:

So this is taking something that *already works properly on POSIX systems* and making it work on Windows as well.

I doubt it does without side effects. For example, an application that would go through sys.path, and encode everything with sys.getfilesystemencoding() currently works, but will break if the patch is applied and non-mbcs strings are put on sys.path.

Also, what will be the effect on file? What value will it have if the module originates from a sys.path entry that is a non-mbcs unicode string? I haven't tested the patch, but it looks like file becomes a unicode string on Windows, and remains a byte string encoded with the file system encoding elsewhere. That's also a change in behavior.

Regards, Martin

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